Honestly for live stuff, you don’t want plugins generating in real-time anyway. You want tight recordings / loops, samples at most, or a couple of external synt

Honestly for live stuff, you don’t want plugins generating in real-time anyway. You want tight recordings / loops, samples at most, or a couple of external synths. There are so dang many compact “desktop” synths that are massively powerful these days that it’s hard to recommend any above the others, but I do really love the PreenFM 2 and 3, and the developer is amazing. It’s basically the pinnacle of open source FM synthesis if you’re ever interested in that.